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#4 Because the drones are basically useless for real opposition like the North Koreans; we basically use them in Pakistan to help enable the fiction that we're not doing what little we do there without the cooperation of the Pakistani government. Also to further the fiction that we're actually fighting the WoT there in a significant fashion.